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Letter of State.

A calligraphic exemplar page displaying the "Lettre d'Estat" script style. The page features a highly ornate flourished initial 'D' and various alphabets. The central text is a moralizing passage about discretion, written in an elegant, slanted cursive. Below the main text, there is a sequence of lowercase letters and ligatures demonstrating the script's variations.

Discretion is in man
when he can wisely and prudently restrain
his tongue, always adjusting his words to the good
and virtuous. Without discretion, every act performed is
imperfect and useless, just like the land that one
sows which does not bring forth its fruit in its season.